Job 23
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then Job answered, and said:
1Respondens autem Job, ait:
2Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.
2[Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.
3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
3Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus?
4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.
4Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus:
5That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
5ut sciam verba quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.
6I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
6Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.
7Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.
7Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam judicium meum.
8But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.
8Si ad orientem iero, non apparet; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.
9If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on him: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.
9Si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.
10But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:
10Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit.
11My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.
11Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus: viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.
12I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.
12A mandatis labiorum ejus non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris ejus.
13For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever is soul hath desired, that hath he done.
13Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem ejus: et anima ejus quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.
14And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.
14Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.
15And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him I am made pensive with fear.
15Et idcirco a facie ejus turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.
16God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.
16Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.
17For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.
17Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.]
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